NUR 3561 – Deliverable 7 –  Assess, Diagnose, Prioritize and Propose Introduction

Creating a culture of nursing excellence in a healthcare organization requires strategic planning, effective change management, and transformational leadership. The development of nursing excellence must involve assessing, diagnosing, prioritizing, and proposing a healthcare organization that can demonstrate excellent and quality patient outcomes. This paper provides an Innovative Practice Proposal for Magnet Hospital after identifying and assessing the needs of the hospital.

Description and Purpose of the Innovation

The proposed innovation for the privately owned Magnet Hospital involves the integration of the Magnet Recognition Program (MRP) in the hospital services that would act as a guide in creating a culture of nursing excellence. This program has been considered the highest recognition for nursing services and the healthcare organization to create nursing excellence (Broom & Mary, 2007). This innovation program is operated by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, which provides an avenue to distribute successful practices and strategies used by nurses to improve the quality of patient care by solving the needs of the focused healthcare organization. The adoption of these programs leads to higher percentages of Registered Nurses’ satisfaction, increased Registered Nurse retention and vacancy, improved clinical outcomes, and enhanced patient satisfaction (ANCC, 2011).

Outline of Proposed Innovation

The MRP innovation aims at reducing the mistakes or errors made during the prescription and treatment processes. The implementation of the proposed innovative practice involves increasing the number of registered nurses to fill open positions in the hospital. The application of the innovative practice requires various steps, such as rigorous documentation and site assessment adhering to fundamental principles. The implementation involves transformational leadership, developing a structure that improves staff satisfaction and empowerment, and establishing a professional nursing practice model. The innovative practice also consists of supporting knowledge generation and application as well as focusing on the mechanisms for robust quality improvement (Friese et al., 2015).

To meet the requirements of the hospital stated in the quarterly needs assessment, the innovation aims to improve the quality of patient care through the creation of an excellent nursing environment. The change will focus on meeting the needs assessment of the hospital, such as increasing the retention rates of graduate rates by 6%, increasing the number of applicants for the open nursing positions, and nursing satisfaction by 8%, among other needs assessed during the quarterly needs assessments. Based on the quarterly needs assessment of the Magnet Hospital, medical errors have increased by 18%.